Blow Out The Candles

05/19/2007

1095 days = 3 years = the number of days that Diva Marketing (Blog)has been part of the exciting social media marketing conversation.

Little did I know when the I tenuously hit the publish button on May 19, 2004 it would be the beginning of an adventure that would ..>bring a new passion into my life>change the direction of my business>provide opportunities to make new friends from all corners of the globe >bring me a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. of A>and even bring a bit of fame in terms of being quoted in many main stream media pubs and highlighted in the best seller book on blogs - Naked Conversations by Shel Israel and Robert Scoble. Still waiting for the fortune part to kick-in. (wink)

In their book, Shel and Robert ended our "conversation" with the remark -

In the three years I've been involved in business blogging I believe that Both have occurred.

Marketing
is morphing into a more conversational, customer-focused discipline.
While at the same time blogging is becoming more strategic with a focus
on supporting business outcomes. - Toby Diva Marketing

Yes, I do believe you
can have an authentic, honest, transparent conversation using social
media tactics and be accountable to goals and objectives.

Thanks to Merrill Dubrow, CEO blogger from M/A/R/C, a BBF and a BBBF (before BBF), for the gift of our interview.

Please help me blow out the candles of Diva Marketing's virtual cupcake
and make a wish for the continued evolution of this emerging industry. From the bottom of my heart,thanks to Youfor joining me in the conversations of this exciting new world. Looking forward to what is next in our adventure.

Congratulations! Your blog keeps getting better and better. :)

Three years! And I thought my three months was a big deal.

Congratulations, Toby.

Diva you are to die for. Best of all...having met you several times...I can attest to what a warm, sincere, excited and genuine person you are. You really do hearten me and I'm better for knowing you. Believe it. As I tell everyone, if there's one word to describe the diva, it's "warm". I can't help that I want to hug you so much.

Congrats Toby. You've inspired many people (myself included) over your three years. Your dedication shines through. All my best!

Oh, Toby, most gracious Diva, happiest of blog-anniversaries! Congratulations on the past 3 years, and here's to an unbelievable additional 3+ years. I love your writings and am thrilled to have met you in person. See you again very soon!

Toby: Wow, three years. That's unbelievable! What a treat is was getting to meet you in NYC. I can only hope that our short time together was the first of many more chats. Keep it going for many more multiples of three! Best wishes...

I agree with you, blogs have changed marketing and at the same time, marketing is changing blogs. Change is good.

Toby/ Diva- Wow, three years? Amazing. Simply amazing. I can only imagine what kind of catalog of wonderful thoughts and dialogs are compiled inside the "walls" of this blog. College courses should be taught with this blog as part of the curriculum (if they aren't already).

I thank you for what you have done with this space. Your blog was one of the first marketing blogs I ever found when I started blogging almost 2.5 years ago. It is no exaggeration to proclaim that finding you and your blog changed my life- sincerely. I'd never really considered myself or the things I was doing with my blog to actually be "marketing" and then I learned a lot by coming here and reading and commenting. I've certainly gotten more and more involved in marketing, to say the least, and blogging is now a major part of my world and what I do. Much of that has a lot to do with you and how gracious you have been to a simple, humble (yet terribly self-promoting... ;-}) bike nerd. Many of the conversations we've had, both here and via email (and even in person) have really educated me and validated many of my thoughts. It is no leap of belief to say that I owe so very much to you.

So on your third blog birthday, I want to wish you the very best for many more years of sharing, educating, growing, asking, learning and virtual cocktails! I really do hope you make it back out to San Diego so we can have a real cocktail and more great conversation.